This is mentioned in "Unix system programming in Object Caml"* in section
4.5.  The solution given in the book is wrap the function call in a
try...with.  It doesn't feel right to me either, but I don't know if there
is a better alternative.

*http://ocamlunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a known pitfall. Read this discussion of some months ago:
>
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> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2010/08/242cee79bb97e86bc93bc6bd88d2f256.en.html
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